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EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… African government. The region became the second Bantustan to gain ‘independence’ following the Transkei, a year earlier. The region’s President, Lucas…
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… 1870 in Fortrie, Banffshire, Scotland as the second son of a crofter. He received a Master of Arts in Classics from Balliol College in Oxford … the…
EventB.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, announces extensive security measures following the Sharpeville Massacre
… Vorster, Minister of Justice announced extensive measures to "ensure the safety of the state to the absolute maximum" … further outbreaks of unrest, the…
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… forum met for the first time since December 1993 to discuss the African National Congress (ANC)'s proposals. The ANC had proposed inclusion of a…
List of deaths in detention
… state was one of the many weapons that the government used to quell resistance. As detention was a legal weapon that could see an individual, a group or even…
EventFirst day of office for Mboweni as Governor the SA Reserve Bank
… governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to replace Dr Chris Stals. Mboweni, the first Black person to head this highly reputed institution, was…
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
… Day, and was celebrated in kwazulu/Natal. It was changed to National Heritage Day in 2004 when a compromise was reached between the new government and the ……
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… this day in history, and international conference was held to implement legislation to protect the African elephant and rhinoceros. This is because due to…
EventItalo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 is signed
… On 2 August 1928, Italy signed a twenty-year treaty of friendship with Abyssinia (now known … Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration, Italy agreed to upholding…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… Black Consciousness advocated by Steven Biko. It was open to Blacks, Coloureds and Indians, but closed to Whites. AZAPO … about the Black Consciousness…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… exercise known as 'Operation Great Storm'. Its aim was to reclaim land from White people and return it to … the slogan 'Year of the People's Offensive'. It …
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
… At a meeting held in Ulundi, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader … " and " unimplementable " . Referring specifically to the proposed ban on carrying…
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… On 10 January 1988, Mr Obed Amon Mwanza, a Zimbabwean, was killed and six African National Congress … members were injured when the truck in which Mwanza was…
EventFreedom of press is established at the Cape
… had repeatedly censored the newspaper, Fairbairn appealed to the British government and gained the right to publish … freedom, that they acknowledged their…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… was completed. The construction of the Beira Railway to Umtali was completed in February 1989, just before the … first regular freight service began. After…
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
… the Birkenhead, under Captain Robert Salmond, stranded on a reef opposite Danger Point, the southern point of Walker … 8th Frontier War . It is believed that…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… Numerous attempts were made by the local government to clear informal dwellings at Crossroads in close proximity … airport. The government’s plan was to…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… The Government Gazette published a Proclamation by which the forty-two member KaNgwane … government conceded another legal defeat in its attempts to transfer…
EventThe Congo Free State is established by King Leopold of Belgium
… was established by King Leopold II of Belgium. Congo was a large region in central Africa that had been able to resist European penetration. It occupies most…
Foreword
… This report reproduces the papers presented at a Symposium held to mark the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. They sparked…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we walk from our office in downtown Johannesburg to Struik’s…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. When he cancelled his … at the Johannesburg Joy of Jazz…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… Festival and his remaining October shows, taking time out to deal with serious health issues, fans were forced to … Harry James’s trumpet, in the 1950 movie …
PlaceKuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape
… East London, (Afrikaans-'Oos-Londen'), is a Port City is situated in the Eastern Cape Province of … of the Buffalo River along the Indian Ocean . The need…
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… On 11 April 1961, Nigeria imposed a trade boycott on South Africa, due to objections against South Africa's apartheid policy. In early 1960, Nigeria had…
EventCommittee of Ten wants election of a new community board
… of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issued a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, including powers…
EventFirst World Haemophilia Day
… World Haemophilia Day was first celebrated in 1989 to increase awareness of haemophilia and to bring the needs of those affected by the disorder to the … of…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… parties in parliament tabled more than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The New National Party (NNP) strove for the insertion of a lockout…
EventA fire in a boarding school in Kenya kills fifty-eight boys and seriously injures twenty-eight others
… 50 teenage boys died when their dormitory caught fire in a secondary school near Nairobi, Kenya. The raging fire is reported to have spread quickly burning…
PlaceFree State Province
… is flat with rolling grasslands and crops fields, rising to lovely sandstone Mountains in the Northeast. It was originally a Boer State and then (from 1910)…